cve-2023-1838
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-05 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 06:05
Severity
Summary
A use-after-free flaw was found in vhost_net_set_backend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the Linux kernel due to a double fget. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system, and could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.
References
SourceURLTags
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220516084213.26854-1-jasowang%40redhat.com/T/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0003/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
VendorProduct
n/aKernel
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